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16.11.2022

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We publish our magic moments on the website to share our vibrant, diverse, yet challenging curriculum. Theyre a great snapshot of what it's like to be a kid at St George's, the memories we make, and crucially the building blocks we give the kids in preparation for next year.... whatever next year will be. If you follow s on facebook, then you will seen all the photographs, but in any event, they're well worth a look, and help contradict the answer of "nothing," when you ask the kids what they have done today! 

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17 Nov 2022
Around school this week
Around school this week
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From the PTFA

We will have 3 non-uniform Fridays (today, the 25 November, 2 December) in the run up to the Christmas Fair

For the following 2 Fridays would you mind supplying us with bottles, clean/Unused/New re-useable soft toys, books, games, chocolates, toiletries, or any prizes that can be used for the tombola stall. (if you can't make a donation, don't worry - just do your best, and in any event still send you kids into school with a big smile, and in non uniform!)

Please try to sell the raffle tickets – 5 strips per family! (Sent home last week) Please put your name on one side of the tickets and return this side with the money to school – keeping the unsigned ticket at home for you when you collect the winning prize! Prizes to be announced…

Raffle tickets are priced at £1.00 per strip and went out last week!

If you shop through EasyFundraising for St George's. Look out for Black Friday Deals, you could raise extra cash for School.

If you don't already, please consider signing up, it's so easy to shop and raise cash at the same time. Thank you! 😊

In other news as we prepare for the Fair

Cakes. Please Please Please = Let's do this! 

On the morning of the Fair can as many people as possible send in cakes for us to sell please? We'd love to re kindle the lovely cake stall of old! Hope you can help here. That would be amazing, and thank you. 

Location of stalls. Kelly Beesley, and others have organised a wonderful Fair - it should be amazingly gorgeous. You will enter the fair through the junior yard - hopefully there'll be an amazing queue all the way to the chippy to enter the fair. There will be rides on the junior yard, with the majority of the stall on the junior MUGA. 

Refreshments, drinks, chips and hot dogs, will be served from the kitchen, as will mulled wine, tea and coffee. Along the promenade there will be the year 6 games, on the right, and school council in the classroom on the left - a Christmas photo booth.

Santa will be in the stable - the hut outside class 4. Class 4 will be where you wait to see Santa. 

Reindeers will be on the small slope, heading towards the MUGA. (Where they were last year)

Please don't forget to bake

Please don't forget to come to the fair

Please don't for we are a cash only fair - change welcome - money very welcome! 

And can I pass on heartfelt thanks to all who have help prepared the fair - the PTFA who have worked tirelessly, and also a thank you to those of you who have offered to help come and help set up on the day of the fair - don't worry - full training will be given. Thank you all so very much indeed - as I say many times, we are so much stronger together, and together we can achieve great things. 

Bingo tickets will go on sale on Monday 21st November. Just call in the office, tickets are priced at £1.00 per adult, although children need a ticket for "numbers" these are free. So just call in and see Sharon. 1st come 1st served! 

Thank you for Parents’ Evening. Thank you for your questions, thank you for you support, thank you for your support. There was a lovely atmosphere in school on the  face to face one, which was by far the most popular. At the next parents evening, by default, both will be face to face. However, there are undoubted benefits of zoom, so you will still be able to request a zoom meeting if that fits better for you.  The zoom sessions do work very well. They will be freely available to you, however, I must say that it is a surreal and strange scene walking around the empty corridors. I’m so used to seeing the corridors filled with enthused and proud parents scanning through books. Nonetheless, each time I walked into the classrooms it was lovely to hear the same professional and compassionate conversations I am so used to.

At the risk of repeating myself, I must again recognise how amazingly the children are working. They are passionate, calm, respectful and developing incredibly. The classrooms are electric, the behaviour is exemplary and energy levels are soaring. Behaviour at St. George’s has been incredible for a long time now, yet each day im grateful, and so proud of it - it's not something I ever take for granted. It makes an incalculable difference to the learning of the kids, and the atmosphere in the school. 

We usually give out the free school meals and pupil premium forms at the November Parents Evening. If you are entitled please fill in the form that was attached last week and return it to the school office - sadly my motivation is 2 fold.... getting you and your child what you're entitled to, but, alas, im ashamed to say, the completion of the forms makes a positive difference to the school's budget. 

Book Fair in School
All Day
From 09 Nov until 23 Nov
09
November
C4 Visit Liverpool Maritime Museum
All Day
17
November
Parents Evening (Zoom)
4:00pm – 7:00pm
17
November
Non Uniform Day 1
All Day
18
November
Y6 to London
7:00am – 8:00pm
24
November
Non Uniform Day 2
All Day
25
November
Class 5 Fairytale Day
All Day
25
November
CSSP Y5/Y6 Sportshall heat 4
4:00pm – 6:00pm
29
November
Non Uniform Day 3
All Day
02
December
History Workshop c3
9:00am – 12:00pm
02
December
History Workshop c6
1:15pm – 2:45pm
02
December
Christmas Fair
6:00pm – 8:00pm
05
December
Year 5 to Church (drop off)
9:00am – 11:00am
07
December
Reception's Christmas Carol Cafe
2:00pm – 3:00pm
07
December
Year 1's Christmas Carol Cafe
2:00pm – 3:00pm
08
December

The Thrive Programme Roll out

This week the children have been introduced to the concept of their own inner voice. This is the voice they use to talk to themselves in their head (and yes, we all do this!).  

Sadly, sometimes this inner voice can be overly harsh and critical. They can tell themselves that they can't do something, or they're rubbish, or they're useless or no one likes them. 

Imagine if someone else was following them around saying those things, it would be classed as bullying. Sadly, if the children are saying these things to themselves, it has the same detrimental effect as if someone else was saying it to them. It lowers their self-esteem and knocks the confidence they have in themselves. 

We need to help our children build kind, charitable, warm, nurturing inner voices. Life can be challenging and hard times will inevitably come for the children at some point or another. They shouldn't be making things harder on themselves by the way they speak to themselves.

We can help our children to develop the skills to self-talk themselves through life's challenges and hurdles in a kind, calm, charitable, warm way - just like they would do with a friend.

We would reassure a friend going through a tricky time; we would take some pressure off them (if we could), we would tell them that they could deal with this, remind them of all the times they have got through tricky times and remind them they are strong enough to get through it ... imagine if we said these things to ourselves...  Imagine if your child (when faced with a tricky time) was able to speak to themselves in this manner... what a difference it would make!

The way we speak to ourselves is just a habit - with a little practice we can change our inner voice. We can go from having an inner critic to an inner best friend. This skill can be practised every day - whether life is great at the moment or challenging. The more skilled the children get at talking to themselves in a kind, calm, nurturing way, the more they will be able to apply this skill when life gets tough. 

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Online payments for this fair are now OPEN.

For parents to pay online, you will need to send them the following link: https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay/1213844

Parent payments - Scholastic Book Fairs

School Book Fairs are a wonderful week long reading event, with mobile bookcases packed with the best books to sell to your pupils. We provide everything you need to promote and run your Book Fair. Getting children reading. Giving books to schools.

bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk

Online payments opened on October 26, 2022 and must be completed by 12:00 on November 23, 2022.

Dear friends,

Today we remembered those we have lost due to wars in all parts of the world.

You can find Fr Jordan’s reflection here: https://stgeorgechorley.co.uk/news/news_inner/216

The newsletter for this week is here: https://stgeorgechorley.co.uk/brochure/theway.pdf

You can find our November Magazine here: https://stgeorgechorley.co.uk/news/news_inner/215

God bless,

Fr Mike